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Words with Elise: "Ken"

I wonder if this was intentional?

So I was just thinking about yesterday’s etymology video about Barbie, Barbara, barbarian, foreigner, stranger. So I was thinking, what’s the etymology of Ken, is it related to kin. It is: “To know, familiar.” But the “to know” really gets me, one, it’s interesting how it’s related to Adam and Eve, and Eve wanting wisdom and choosing to know, and being …

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